‘Dangerous’ for YouTube to remove doctor’s Senate testimony on coronavirus treatment: Ron Johnson
Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wis., slammed YouTube’s “dangerous” actions Thursday, after the platform censored a video of Dr. Pierre Kory testifying earlier than the U.S. Senate a couple of extensively out there drug that early research present could assist remedy and prevention of Covid-19.
Johnson, who appeared for an interview on “Fox and Friends,” wrote within the Wall Street Journal that Google’s YouTube “had ratcheted up censorship to a new level.”
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The senator went on to criticize US well being businesses, claiming that they’ve failed to put cash and analysis into exploring “repurposed, cheap, generic drugs,” just like the one in Dr. Kory’s findings. Dr. Kory testified earlier than the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs in December, citing using a extensively out there drug known as ivermectin, as a possible early remedy and prevention of COVID-19.
The drug, which is extensively out there to deal with tropical illnesses brought on by parasites, confirmed promising outcomes from a examine executed in Argentina. In the examine, 800 healthcare employees obtained ivermectin, whereas one other 400 didn’t. Of the 800, not a single particular person contracted COVID-19, whereas greater than half of the 400 did.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: Since we had that listening to December eighth, I simply watched the views of that video rise to over 8 million, 7.7 million on Fox News Now, about half one million on my web site. I received notified January twenty seventh that it simply wasn’t passing the YouTube censors, so they’re gonna take it down off of our web site they usually additionally took it off of Fox News Now’s. I believe it nonetheless could also be out there on some lesser websites with far fewer views however this is harmful when you could have censorship of knowledge.
You know, Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court justice had a choice virtually 100 years in the past in 1927 that really handled falsehoods and fallacies that may trigger societal hurt mentioned ‘the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.’ That was fairly sensible again then, however we’re transferring within the actual wrong way now…
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We have two hearings on early remedy. The lead witness in my first listening to has been fired by his establishment as a result of he testified, mainly. Doctor Kory is being ostracized and vilified. This is senseless in any respect. Our well being businesses have failed us in not spending every kind of time and money and effort exploring repurposed, low cost, generic medicine.
Could or not it’s as a result of Remdesivir for instance is $3,200 for a remedy and these medicine are about $20 for a remedy? Maybe it’s that financial incentive, nevertheless it’s a travesty regardless and the truth that you could have these frontline medical doctors which might be risking their lives, having the braveness and compassion to really deal with sufferers versus the NIH tips which mainly say go dwelling, isolate your self, be afraid, do nothing till you get sick sufficient after which we’ll attempt to save your life in the hospital.
It is senseless in any respect. This is weird what has occurred in our well being businesses and as I wrote in my piece it’s a darkish chapter in American drugs in addition to American journalism.
